The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-06-16
OUTSIDE NEW YORK HARBOR.
Quaint Scenes on the Fishing Banks
All Sorts of Luck.

When the Bay Ridge had stopped 4 net
work of lines went over her sides. Then
came period of fiShless suspense. y man
on the upper deck hauled in his fane and
gave Il great cry of disappointment when he
found on his hook what looked like piece
of glue. 1t was a jelly fish. The Jelly
fish has very inexpensive features and is
about as esamy II shingle.
Suddenly Il cry of excitement went up
from the multitude, An angler had got
a bite. 1t was II most promising bite, and
great beads of sweat stood ont on the
mans face rs he hauled i'll 100 feet of line.
Then the crowd greeted the poor little fish
on the end Of the line with jeers of de-
rision. 1t was IL small, corpulent, yellow
fish, which some one said was 4 sea robin.
The knowing ones said that where the sea
robin nests the other fish are not to be
found; but, us usual, the knowing ones
We're wrong, for II school of sea bass came
racing along and We're Iured aboard the
boat in great numbers. y novice came
down out of his state room wearing the
only plug hat on the steamboat. and was
greeted with cries of, Say, lend me the
dicer to put my fish III. =
The novice put away his silk tile, pur-
chased Il dapple gray sea hat for seventy
five cents. and threw his line into the sea.
1t wound itself around twenty other lines,
and the novice became the object of much
! objurgation before his line was Olsen
| tangled. While he was working at the
snarl a hook from the upper deck came
| down and took off his new hat. The
| greatest of skill is required by those on
| the lower deck to dodge the hooks from
above. Finally the novice dropped his
line down on the bed of the ocean and
awaited u bite. When he pulled in he ex-
pected to bring a fish from the depths,
| and he was nightly surprised to bring
| down the tackle and curses of a man
| above him on the upper deck. Just when
his line went aloft he couldn't tell. It is
q common habit of tackle to go up that
way, and frequently man on the lower
deck would call out to some fellow above
| him: ''When you get done with my line
! send it down here
| A vehement individual, who had
brought no luck along with, him began
| at this jJncture to scream: ''Moye the
boat,''
! 4 German on the lower deck took up
the refrain, but stopped his noise when
! he got an energetic bite.
'tGit gait, Git gaffr' shouted sew
eral men eXcitedly. Giles got g whop-
PERI
When the tackle came in sight a puny
sea bass was squirming on the end of the
! hook. He was, however, the advance
courier of some big fish. A fish ON its
way to the upper deck would slap a man
| down below square in the face, but the
man didn't seem to mind such an act of
familiarity.
The novice was thrown into paroxysm
of glee by pulling up Il large blonde OBJ
ject with blue eyes and an expressive
mouth like a bull pup. 1t was Il conger
| eel. AS soon as it came aboard a young
man came along and asked: ''D'ye want
that feller?''
The novice said no, and the young man
| put the eel in his basket. This man repre-
scented character that is always to be
found on fishing excursions. He collects
the fish caught by those who have no use
for them, and goes home at night and
smotherS his conscience with layers of lies
about the number of fish he has caught.
The walls of the cabin of the Bay Ridge
are adorned with portraits Of the yarietie:
| of fish that an eXcurSiOnist is liable tx
catch. Yesterday, however, the party
caught fish whose IkeneSSeS are not dow
on the bills One fish caught an angler
and was about to pull him down from the
hurricane deck when q dozen willing
hands seized the line and hauled Il sub
marine monster to the surface 1t was
young shark. There was great excite
ment when the shark tried to get ABOARD
the steamboat One of the anglers re
duced him to q cOmatoSe condition with
blow ON the head, and he ceased hi
struggles and was laid out on deck just a
the screamer up above renewed his cry o
''Move the boat!''
Everybody else seemed to be seized witt
the same desire. 1t was said that no NOR
fish could be expected there after the sharl
had come, for no self-respecting sea bas
will stay in the company of a shark. TIL
anchor was reefed, the engineer gave tn
big steel machinery a few boosts with
handspike and the steamer went to anothe
bank-New York Sun.